On 3/7/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since next() is equivalent to send(None) we don't really need the > next() method do we? >
Guess not, especially if we make send() default to sending None back. -Brett > On 3/7/07, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3/7/07, Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ka-Ping Yee schrieb: > > > > On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Georg Brandl wrote: > > > >> Ka-Ping Yee schrieb: > > > >> > On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > >> >> Having now read this entire thread I am going to accept Ping's PEP. > > > >> >> Adding the sentinel argument to the next() builtin was what did it > > > >> >> for > > > >> >> me: it neatly solves the problem if having to catch that > > > >> >> StopIteration > > > >> >> in 99% of the cases. > > > >> > > > > >> > Okay, this is checked in as PEP 3114. > > > >> > > > >> Patch is at http://python.org/sf/1675363. > > > > > > > > Thanks for doing this work! > > > > > > I hope it helps getting a decision about the PEP. > > > > > > One thing that struck me while doing the next -> __next__ transition > > > was the new asymmetry between generator methods; there is now send() > > > and close(), but no next() anymore. > > > > > > > Oooh, that's a good point. I guess that would mean generators should > > keep their 'next' methods for API symmetry with 'send' and 'close'; > > calling next() just for when you are not sending something in would be > > icky. > > > > But of course having two methods that do the exact same thing seems a > > little icky as well. I was on the fence with this whole proposal, but > > this makes me -0 on the rename and +0 on the new built-in. > > > > -Brett > > _______________________________________________ > > Python-3000 mailing list > > Python-3000@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 > > Unsubscribe: > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/guido%40python.org > > > > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) > _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
